This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Using WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_ALLOW_AUTOCONFIG on Windows versions older than Windows 10 1703 (build 15063)
is not supported and causes WinHttpGetProxyForUrl to fail with ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. This results in failures
reaching the control on environments where a proxy is required.
We use wingoes version detection to conditionally set the WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_ALLOW_AUTOCONFIG flag
on Windows builds greater than 15063.
While there, we also update proxy detection to use WINHTTP_AUTO_DETECT_TYPE_DNS_A, as DNS-based proxy discovery
might be required with Active Directory and in certain other environments.
Updates tailscale/corp#29168
Fixes#879
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
To collect some data on how widespread this is and whether there's
any correlation between different versions of Windows, etc.
Updates #4811
Change-Id: I003041d0d7e61d2482acd8155c1a4ed413a2c5c4
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The definition of winHTTPProxyInfo was using the wrong type (uint16 vs uint32)
for its first field. I fixed that type.
Furthermore, any UTF16 strings returned in that structure must be explicitly
freed. I added code to do this.
Finally, since this is the second time I've seen type safety errors in this code,
I switched the native API calls over to use wrappers generated by mkwinsyscall.
I know that would not have helped prevent the previous two problems, but every
bit helps IMHO.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/4811
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
The Windows BOOL type is an int32. We were using a bool,
which is a one byte wide. This could be responsible for the
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER errors we were seeing for calls to
WinHttpGetProxyForUrl.
We manually checked all other existing Windows syscalls
for similar mistakes and did not find any.
Updates #879
Co-authored-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>
Otherwise log upload HTTP requests generate proxy errrors which
generate logs which generate HTTP requests which generate proxy
errors which generate more logs, etc.
Fixes#879
Otherwise when PAC server is down, we log, and each log entry is a new
HTTP request (from logtail) and a new GetProxyForURL call, which again
logs, non-stop. This is also nicer to the WinHTTP service.
Then also hook up link change notifications to the cache to reset it
if there's a chance the network might work sooner.
We currently have a chickend-and-egg situation in some environments
where we can set up routes that WinHTTP's WPAD/PAC resolution service
needs to download the PAC file to evaluate GetProxyForURL, but the PAC
file is behind a route for which we need to call GetProxyForURL to
e.g. dial a DERP server.
As a short-term fix, just assume that the most recently returned proxy
is good enough for such situations.
